This is volume 1 of a three-part documentary series released in 1987.

Series Synopsis (from VHS box):
A chilling documentary on U.S. policy in Central America, this three volume series, which took six years to make, was researched and filmed by Allan Francovich, best known for his award winning film about the CIA, On Company Business.

An astonishing range of characters tell their stories, from soon-to-be-assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero to Salvadoran right wing leader Robert D'Aubuisson; from three then-Presidents of the three republics to Guatemala's impoverished indigenous peoples; from ousted American Ambassador Robert White, CIA operatives, and National Security officials to the founder of El Salvador's secret police, who speaks directly of the rape and murder of four American missionary women there, from the top death squad officials to remorseful triggermen whose gruesome accounts of kidnapping, torture and killing lend compelling moral urgency to the case against right-wing dogma.

"The issue is really whether the U.S. government instigated, trained and has direct knowledge regarding a whole series of murders - including American citizens plus hundreds of thousands of local people - and has covered it up. What people know about the world is controlled. These issues are crucial to democracy: without information you can't expect the population to make decisions knowingly." - Allan Francovich

"An eye-opening documentary about the Central American wars ... the film's most frightening sequences are bloodless interviews with right-wing vigilantes - self-possessed men of power who suavely deny their responsibility for crimes attributed to them by human rights organizations ... a formidable work of investigative cinema." - San Francisco Examiner

"Not to be destined a favorite in the White House screening room." - The Washington Post

Youtube links:
Vol. 1 - Guatemala http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EIn2ev6sDk
Vol. 2 - El Salvador http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mev5jwfQdN4
Vol. 3 - Nicaragua http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7RD7DYomVw

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